hellodevnull's comments

Modafinil. Works great (14 hours of focus and productivity). At $5 a pop it's not something I can afford daily.

If something cheaper becomes available I'd use it.

I read an argument that if you know you'll never be able to delete your account and posts, you'll be more careful about what you say. I don't think this is something I'd be considering when writing posts. We change as we get older and recognize that things we may have said in the past were stupid, but now we're stuck with them for life because they're on an interet forum with our name next to them.

This is why I now only post anonymously.

Not everyone feels like they're wasting their life because they're indoors when it's sunny.

I just made a post saying I didn't jump to conclusions, it was only after years of training that I even considered the possibility that something was wrong with me. Never browsed /fit/ not sure what you're trying to say... I won't try to convince you -- I'm sure there are many that like to make excuses so you think I fall under that category too.

I did Starting Strength with a gallon of milk a day (6000 Calories). I was able to improve my lifts (slowly) but I looked horrible (so much fat around abdomen I looked pregnant). Switched to hypertrophy with 2000-3000 Calories whilst cutting/maintaining. I researched this well and tried really hard so I'm not jumping to conclusions here.

I bulked and cut as many recommend. During the bulk phase I put on about 10kg, after which I lowered my calorie intake to try to reduce my body fat and look better (I was skinny-fat). I worked out with some friends, similar age, and they were able to build muscle and increase their lifts at a much higher rate than I could.

>I was just at the gym watching the 30-year-olds at the pull-up bar building muscles in three weeks. And I’m at the pull up bar and nothing’s happening

While many of you are thinking that he's making excuses (he might be) or that the other guys worked long and hard to build muscle, I can relate: I've been lifting weights three times a week for the last four years. I still look average, and yes I'm eating and exercising properly.

I believe it might be something to do with testosterone. I was always skinny, high body fat and frail. I worked super hard to even start exercising, eventually I was able to get into routine but still now I feel like I should look much better after all this time.

What's the deal with testosterone in UK? I'm 27, is it likely that I can get it? Are there home test kits I can get (reliable ones)? Do testosterone boosters actually work (I can't verify without testing)?

How was it? I didn't have an option to take CS either for GCSE or A-Level. There was IT but most university departments actually discouraged it and recommended just taking science and maths.

You answered your own question partly. It's simple, exercise and don't sit in front of a computer screen all night. Yet most people won't do this and complain that they have "insomnia" (the word has been overused to the point that going to bed past midnight now makes you an insomniac) and seem to think they now need pill/technology.

I liked this visual explanation

http://setosa.io/blog/2014/07/26/markov-chains/

I've noticed from years of reading Wikipedia that on articles on people, if the side section or first paragraph contains anything related to their background (religion or race) it almost always is there to state that they are Jewish. I don't know why, this isn't a conspiracy theory, but perhaps somebody thinks it's important that if somebody is Jewish in heritage everybody should know.

Listen to the end of the Charlie Rose interview. Last words something about not jumping off a building any time soon.

>More than 3.3 million people who would have died of malaria are alive today.

This does make him sound like a saint, but is number of lives saved really a good metric? I mean, what's the quality of life like for these three million people, what's their life expectancy?

I know this makes me sound like a horrible person but I think keeping extremely poor people barely alive looks good as a statistic and there's more worthy causes to spend our efforts on in those areas where malaria is prevalent.

For the first five minutes I kept worrying it was going to be a scream (see Maze Game).

Reasons 1 and 3 are enough for me to stop someone who is relatively new to web app development to use something other than Angular. egghead.io saved me when trying to learn it, but before that I was stuck trying to follow their tutorials and docs (which understand are a little better today) and spending hours each day trying to figure out problems - this wasn't the case with Ember and Backbone just for a persona comparison there.

>Controls are too big >Designed for touch screens by default

It says "mobile first" in the tag line.. but this is a trend in front-end design in general. Today it's all controls, fonts and you have to scroll down several pages to read about a paragraph's worth of information.

What I liked about her lecture is that unlike the previous ones that were full of general ideas about starting a startup, she related her practical advice to her own experiences and the mistakes she made. Examples are very useful and for me they ingrain the underlying ideas to a greater extent. Also learning about what not to do is just as, if not more important (see PG's lecture of counterintuitive parts of startups) than learning about what to do.

It is not often practical to use dictionary definitions to describe political or social ideologies. If we go by definitions, both feminists and men's rights activities should believe the exact same things.

I don't identify with feminists or men's rights activists today because equality is not those specific group's goal.

>often racist/sexist discussion

I'm confused. Reddit is one of the most anti-racist/sexist communities on the internet. That's the hivemind, so you'd expect anything that's racist or exist to quickly be deleted or pushed to the bottom of the thread where nobody can see it (on the large subreddits anyway).

The general idea is the same in education and almost every other aspect of life: learning enough, then applied practice. You do a programming language tutorial then work on your own programs to really grasp it. If you skip the first step you'll make needless mistakes and pick up bad habits, if you skip the second you'll rarely be of much use in the real world.

Here, working at another company can be considered the first step in learning about building businesses, and I'm sure it's beneficial, but in startups I've found you can quickly learn and practice whatever you're intending or supposed to do. Let me give an example form personal experience. At one point in my life I had never sold anything before and probably would have been a lot better if I had worked in another company and observed the sales department, however, when my time came, I had to start contacting customers. I spent a while reading about sales then just went for it. I improved a lot in a short space of time... now I consider this an accelerated experience gain because I researched exactly what I needed for a particular task and applied it to a problem. In the same way I'd only learn about some particular aspect of programming because I've discovered it's what I need.